Race and Performance after Repetition

“Offering a groundbreaking take on one of the most central premises of performance studies, this innovative volume advances theoretical and interpretive articulations of time that expand upon and challenge long-held assumptions about performance as repetition. It significantly expands performance theory and promises to animate conversations about performance, race, and time going forward. This collection is truly a breath of fresh air.” - Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance

“‘What time is it?!’ Race and Performance after Repetition offers a pathbreaking and long overdue intervention in performance studies by posing this sly and urgent question from a multiplicity of critical vantage points. This brilliant and inspired collection of essays unsettles the very foundations of the field by tracing, interrogating, and ultimately questioning the dominant logic of repetition as a foundational theoretical axiom in performance studies scholarship by way of calling attention to the difference that race makes. As this anthology demonstrates, the material historical conditions of race demand a wider, deeper, and more robust critical lexicon that moves beyond the grammar of temporal repetition. It is a volume that heralds new times in the field.” - Daphne A. Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910

“Race and Performance After Repetition is worth reading from cover to cover, both for the engaging and diverse methodologies on offer and for its overarching interest in what scholars of performance studies miss if they adhere too closely to the conventions of the field.” - Christina Knight, American Literary History

“The new collection Race and Performance After Repetition moves several fields forward, among them theatre, dance, and performance studies, Black studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and American studies. That it does so is a testament to the richness and interdisciplinarity of the animating impulse behind the collection, the thought of José Esteban Muñoz.” - Ariel Nereson, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

“Colbert, Jones, and Vogel have assembled a truly excellent collection of new work . . . of some of the most exciting performance theorists working in the field today. . . . The editors and contributors alike have collectively produced something magnificent.” - Takeo Rivera, Modern Drama

“As a collection [Race and Performance after Repetition] pushes on how repetition takes shape; it offers enlightening albeit disparate interventions in thinking about how race, time and performance produce meaning as an ensemble. . . . I finished the book and wanted to start it again.” - Sean Metzger, Performance Research

“After Race and Performance after Repetition, it is no longer possible to imagine racial difference as anything other than essential to the intersection of performance and temporality.” - James McMaster, Theatre Journal